One more week and then The Path will be released. To ease the pain
and whet the appetite, Tale of Tales has released a video trailer
that clearly sets the tone for an unusual experience.

“At first we were going to make a traditional launch trailer.”
explain creators Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, “You know, a little
movie that explains the narrative premise of the game, shows some
gameplay and then serves some kind of challenge. And our first
sketches were just fine. But then we started cutting things up and
working with the recordings of [composer] Jarboe reading the
original fairy tale. The end result much more clearly reflects the
experience of the game: strange, disjointed and completely open for
interpretation while simultaneously feeling very comfortable and
intimate.”

we plan on making them part of the “Deluxe Edition” and these USB sticks will come loaded with a copy of the game, videos (official trailers and behind the scenes work in progress clips), exclusive wallpapers, images and screenshots and whatever else we can think of to put on there that you might like to see/hear/interact with. AND when you’ve enjoyed it all there may still be space for you to put your own files on there… maybe.

We’ve been to the printer this morning. I was anxious to see how the girls would print… and I wanted to document the work being made.

Edition of 200 posters. 1 meter tall. All 6 girls. I checked the color, signed off on the proof prints.
It was fun to see the girls printed so BIG! (If this goes well we may print the wolves too.)click to see them bigger.

This is the first peek at what we will be selling through the Tale of Tales online store starting March 18th!
We received today the “polaroid” prints of all the girls and could not be more pleased! These are offset print on thick paper stock with a special gloss layer on the image area which gives them a rich color and the feel and appearance of a real polaroid photo.

My images here (taken in the excitement of opening the boxes!!) are running a bit dark actually but I promise to make better photos of everything at a later date. click the images to see them bigger

We are working with one of the best printers here in Belgium to make all of our printed materials the highest quality possible. We don’t make physical objects often but when we do we definitely want to make them as beautiful as we can… no killing trees without a good reason we want you to keep these items and treasure them. More soon!

We sent out a press release yesterday night about the price of The Path.
This was picked up by Joystiq so I’ll point you there, because I think this is the first time they cover our game, so its special. (But also from the comments section you can see what we are up against. )

So yes, The Path will be yours for $9.99! And we feel that is a fair price. If we were to charge what it was worth, each individual copy would be about $500, but we wouldn’t want to do that to you! So, we figured, let’s make this game affordable for everybody! Let’s remove cost as a barrier to trying this game out!

As said before it will be available on Steam and Direct2Drive but we’ll also be selling it right here through the Tale of Tales site where you can order it with… extra goodies! (And I’ll be telling you about those real soon!)

Working on Sunday may be against the Third Commandment (or the Fourth depending on your local flavour of Christianity), but there’s something nice about it. It’s very quiet outside. Ghent sleeps on Sunday. And all the work we do seems like something extra, so there’s no pressure, everything we get done is good. At the same time we get zero emails that we need to respond to. So we can concentrate better.

Maybe in the future we should organize a project that we only work on on Sundays while we take the rest of the week off.

This journal chronicles the making of The Path, a single player horror game developed by Tale of Tales, the game was released in March 2009 and can be downloaded via this website! Contributors to this journal are the game’s main creators Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn.
We hope you will enjoy our candid revelations about the work process. But we do want to warn you that if you truly want to experience The Path fresh, you might want to avoid reading these pages. We cannot garantee spoiler-free content!